Re: Anyone want to take over RUNNING CrazyPellas.net?

Its to many of us members that are truly active. and from the sound of it,all CP needs funded is the cost of the server. How about everybody just donate a lil bit. Its not hard. Just think about it. If 170 members donate a dollar each month, thats all the difference. I will be the first donate, who wit me?

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Re: Anyone want to take over RUNNING CrazyPellas.net?

I've never really posted on this site, truth be told I joined back in High School when I wanted to get in to DJ'ing and whatnot, but since then I haven't had the money to really pursue it.

While I cannot offer any money to your cause, I hate to see a site that many people use and rely on go under. I have a couple of ideas...

Have you ever considered switching to phpBB? It's been a while since I've fiddled around with any web forum software, but back in the day it seemed that phpBB was as good, if not better than vBulletin... And it's open source! That would cut out your vBulletin costs so you would be left with only domain and server costs.

Now I'm not sure what sort of traffic this site gets, but $170/month seems like a lot of moneeey. Is a dedicated server really necessary? I'm assuming that all of the audio files are hosted elsewhere so you could probably get away with a $50/month dedicated virtual server... (mt) Media Temple - Web hosting - (dv) Dedicated-Virtual - Pricing

Aside from that, the domain name cost is negligible. With a little bit of work I think you could keep your costs down to about $500-$600 a year... But like I said, I'm not sure what sort of traffic this site gets.

vBulletin is superior than phpBB... anyway it's not the yearly costs that I need help with.. it's just the monthly cost of the server.

Yes, a dedicated server is really needed.. even on this server we were having downtime issues and crashing.. until I disabled a few things and upgraded... take a look at the uptime stats before doing the above mentioned...

Yes, I never understood why we needed a dedicated server. It's a FORUM, after all. I've seen WAY bigger and more active forums with over 50,000+ members. Anyways, if you can't keep it up, post it on a job search site like SNAGAJOB or Monster. Tell them that they can make money somehow, lol.

see above for dedicated server reason...

lol i don't think posting on a job site is a good idea...

the monthly cost of the server could easily be covered with Google Adsense, but my account was banned a few years ago for "invalid clicks"... before it was banned I was easily getting $300 month.. that's before the site had the traffic it has now and we were on a free/shared host.. and I would be willing to tell the new owner the hottest adsense placements...

Originally Posted by BigPtown

wow...that sucks. Speaking of the traffic.....do you make money off of any of the promo stuff on here. If not have you ever thought about trying to lease promos? Wish I had the money to donate also but I'm laid off.......hopefully we find a solution quick fast and n a hurry

nah i don't make money from promo stuff.. and tbh i've not really tried to make money from the site for a couple years.... i'm not really sure what you mean by lease promo's? could you expand? thanks.

Originally Posted by PDP

Hey bro appreciate you taking the time to make that thread, but I closed it because I figured that this thread will serve the purposes.

CP I have decided that http://www.schellshockent.com is going to help aid the new official "Keep CP in charge of Crazypellas.net official movement"

So what im gonna do is, ive dropped all the PDP's Hot pick items on http://www.schellshockent.com down by 25%, and any dedicated members on here that create a customer account and buy a hoodie, schell shock ent will donate 50% of the sale towards keepin this site in your hands

cause ask anyone, it aint no crazypellas.net without CP running shit

big THANKS PDP and lordbubba

Originally Posted by eraze

well i like the ideas of CP cutting down his cost, plus i belive that it would be fine if member paid say 5 to 10 dollars a month.. am willing to do so... all the way from Zambia ... i been on site like mad, i love it i i Dont mind converting my Kwacha to to dollar and doing a small deposit every month...

lets prevent this site going down, if it goes down then it shows that we are just greedy fuckers who dont not appreciate something good....

thanks eraze but I'd rather not run the site on donations because the amount is not guaranteed every month.. i may try it tho.....

Originally Posted by lloydg

damm dont need this, im not in a position to take it all on board at the same time losing a good site is not good. someone please come up with a way to help cp with the cost,would donation each month from all respected and above help???......

By the way CP how long have we got before the Deadline

see above re: donations.

we're safe this month, and should be next month... not sure about after tho

Originally Posted by SoKaLM

CP easy solution use a freeware forum, and we all just use zshare to up music or divshare...even the free forums have ways to upload music wit the free addons

it's not the cost of the forum.. it's the server costs that are the problem....

Originally Posted by Dj MXBI

I agree...we don't really need to be hosting files...when 99% of us use zshare/others

and i don't know why lord bubba/pdp's thread was archived...but its a great idea

and also "The captain goes down with the ship"

i'll go back 2 donating weekly like i did be4...........you told me 2 stop....
that makes me and PDP, 2 people you can rely on

but if 4 some reason you still wan't cp 2 fade 2 black...then i'm with you (sadly)

and all i can say is...i will miss every1 who was under my wing/teachings for all these years
and Co-Sign with Ex'.....you got my e-mail and msn i.d.....i'll always be an (im) away

P.s. this would be a great time to implement Cp wear...other people do it 2 fund their shit so can we....

thanks mx,

re: the cp wear... still don't have a high quality logo... and to buy the items it batch the minimum order is 100.. i guess i'll look at bigcartel, cafepress e.t.c.

Originally Posted by KillaKOfK3

You need to get your own server at /* thanks but no thanks */, that where I got mines, and I don't pay for monthly fees just Internet bills

there's no datacenters near me so that i can colo... and my ISP doesn't like hosting sites.. u get a nice letter lol....

Originally Posted by KillaKOfK3

Lets make Crazypellas Live on by making it a .ning.com site!

fuck ning

thanks for the suggestions anyway

Originally Posted by kingjj4

Its to many of us members that are truly active. and from the sound of it,all CP needs funded is the cost of the server. How about everybody just donate a lil bit. Its not hard. Just think about it. If 170 members donate a dollar each month, thats all the difference. I will be the first donate, who wit me?

Re: Anyone want to take over RUNNING CrazyPellas.net?

Damn. I would hate to see this site go down. But to tell you the truth $2040 a year for payments on a server? Shit, you could've had a personal server in your home for a fraction of that. Even if we did chip in a few bonez, we still couldnt get more then $1000, in my opinion.

Re: Anyone want to take over RUNNING CrazyPellas.net?

Originally Posted by Mikie Slapz

Damn. I would hate to see this site go down. But to tell you the truth $2040 a year for payments on a server? Shit, you could've had a personal server in your home for a fraction of that. Even if we did chip in a few bonez, we still couldnt get more then $1000, in my opinion.

see above

there's no datacenters near me so that i can colo... and my ISP doesn't like hosting sites.. u get a nice letter lol....

when we first moved to the dedicated we did raise about 3/4 the year but i think i ended up putting about $500 to it myself...

Re: Anyone want to take over RUNNING CrazyPellas.net?

i say u start doing the donations now
since CP is good for at least 2 months, thats enuf time to cover 170 dollars in 2 months. we'll have money left over.
i got money coming out my ass from my referrals on uploading.com
i'll donate money for sure, and i'll start uploading again and all that to make money to donate
c'mon CP!
we gotchu!

Re: Anyone want to take over RUNNING CrazyPellas.net?

is there a way to get a new adsense account that isn't linked to the banned account? or does google go by the name and address? if it does go by the address, would a PO Box be a valid workaround? if it goes by the name, would a DBA/Doing Business As be a workaround?

edit:
oOo, i just thought that maybe the domain crazypellas.net got banned. nvm then if that's the case.

Re: Anyone want to take over RUNNING CrazyPellas.net?

CP .. I've sent you a PM...

And $170 is not that unheard of for a dedicated server. Over at warbeats.com my bill is $175/mo not counting bandwidth overages or the other things like software licenses, and other services that all add up.

Re: Anyone want to take over RUNNING CrazyPellas.net?

Re: Anyone want to take over RUNNING CrazyPellas.net?

Originally Posted by nfx

CP .. I've sent you a PM...

And $170 is not that unheard of for a dedicated server. Over at warbeats.com my bill is $175/mo not counting bandwidth overages or the other things like software licenses, and other services that all add up.

yeah its the big big forums with lots of members that need the nice servers, not the shitty ass nulled vbulletin or PHPBB ones.. lmao

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